Monday, January 18, 2021

Cyber Security | Cyber Crimes during Covid Outbreak!

Cyber Crimes during Covid Outbreak!

The Covid-19 pandemic have switched on a digital life around the world. However there is a fear of cyber attacks and crimes every where. Many organizations have started work from home #wfh remotely from home, where they don't have any security protection at home, like proxy, firewall, IPS, IDS as well they miss the regular patch updates, OS upgrades.

People tried to sell fake and duplicate items such as Masks, Sanitizers and even fake vaccines. 

such attacks were;

  • Phishing attack
  • eMail Spam attack
  • Ransomware attack
  • KYC fraud
  • Social Media attack
  • Fake medicine and anti corona drugs, covid vaccines
  • Identity theft
  • Covid positive patient medical record breach.
  • Vaccine data steal
  • Fake online live tracking for corona.
  • The virus related attacks multiplied during this situation to 200 times.
Just need to check your privacy and reset your password in periodic basis. 

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-DR

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